Piece-washing machine.



No. 662,377. Patented Nov. 20, |9oo c, c. KENYUN.

PIECE WASHIN (Application filed G MACHINE.

:(No Model.)

area FMQEQ CHARLES C. KENYON, OF RARITAN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DAVID R. KENYON, OF SAME PLACE.

PIECE-WASHING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,377, dated November 20, 1900.

Application filed August 2, 1900. Serial No. 25,699. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- toothed gear-wheels, so as to allow for a cer- Be it known that 1, CHARLES C. KENYON, tain amount of yield of the upper roll, and a citizen of the United States, and a resident they are driven from the main shaft by a of Raritan, New Jersey, have invented cerchain, belt, or other suitable mechanism, the 5 tain Improvements in Washing-Machines for belt passing around a sprocket-wheel on the Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a main shaft and around a sprocket-wheel on specification. the spindle of either the roll D or the roll D. The object of my invention is to so con- Directly in front of the rolls D D is a plate struct a washing-machine for textile fabrics or board F, having a series of eyeletsf act- 10 that the fabric will be rubbed before passing ing as guides through which the fabric passes to the wringing-rolls. to the rubbing-rolls, and in front of the board The machine to which my improvement is or plate F is a guide-roll G, over which the applied is a machine for washing a continufabric passes from the vat to the eyelets. ous strip or a series of continuous strips of At the back of the rolls 0 O is a guide-roll I5 textile fabric. G, having longitudinal ribs. This roll di- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is rects the fabric that passes from the rolls O a longitudinal sectional view of my improved 0 into the tub or wash-box. The ends of the washing-machine; and Fig. 2 is a sectional fabric introduced into this machine are seview on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. cured together, so as to form a continuous 20 A A are the frames of the machine, conpiece, and there are any number of these nected together by suitable bolts, and bepieces, according to the capacity or width of tween the frames is a tub or wash-box B, hav-' the machine. ing a rounded bottom and closed at each end. It will be seen that the fabric is first sub- Mounted in hearings in the frames A A are merged in the wash-water, then carried over 2 5 the rolls 0 C. These rolls are the wringing the roll G through one of the eyelets in the or squeezing rolls of the machine and are board F between the rubbing-rolls DD, and geared together by long tooth-gears. One of rubbed not only to thoroughly cleanse the the rolls is adjustable in respect to the other, fabric, but also to change the lay of the goods, so that more or less pressure can be given to so that the goods will not become creased by 0 the goods as they pass between the rolls. continuous pressing in the same position. Directly in front of the rolls 0 O are the The fabric as it comes from the rubbing-rolls rubbing-rolls D D. These rubbing-rolls are passes between the squeeze or wringing rolls longitudinally reciprocated as they are C C, then over the guide-roll G, and into the I turned, so as to give a rubbing action to the vat again. By placing the rubbing-rolls so 35 cloth as it passes between them.- The rolls that the fabric, which is continuous, will have spindles d at each end, mounted in bearpass from the vat between the rubbing-rolls, ings E E. The bearings E slide in guideways then between the pressing or wringing rolls, E at each side of the frame, and springs e and again into the vat I am enabled to thortend to force the roll D toward the roll D, oughly cleanse the fabric and at the same 0 40 and above the springs e are set-screws 6, so time rearrange the folds. Directly under the that the pressure can be regulatedas desired. rubbing-rolls and the squeeze-rolls is a trough On the spindle c of each roll are cams cl. B, into which the water or other liquid In the present ins ance on each bearing is a squeezed from the fabric by the rolls D D bracket 65 having a roller or pin d which enand O O is collected. This trough has a stop- 45 ters the slot in the cam, so that as the shafts per at the bottom, so that the liquid can either are turned the cams cause each roll to move be held in the trough so as to flow out at one longitudinally. The cams are so set that one side clear of the machine or simply pass into will move longitudinally in one direction the lower wash-box, or by removing the plug whilethe other is moving longitudinally in the liquid can pass into the wash-box again. :00

50 the opposite direction. During the first washing I simply allow the The rolls D D are geared together by longliquid squeezed from the fabric to pass into the Wash-box again; but at the close of the operation I prefer to collect the dirty liquid and pass it off to one side and allow fresh liquid to enter the box, so that by this means I may rinse the fabric prior to its removal from the machine, so that the fabric is thoroughly Washed and rinsed and the goods are not creased to such an extent that the folds cannot be obliterated when the fabric undergoes final treatment.

I claim as my inventionl. The combination ina machine for washing fabrics, of a Washbox a pair of squeezerolls mounted above the box, means for driving the squeeze-rolls, and a pair of rubbingrolls mounted on one side of the squeezerolls, means for driving the said rolls, means for reciprocating one or both of the rolls, and guides for the fabric, the Whole being constructed so that the fabric will pass from the wash-box between the rolls and into the box again, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a Wash-box, a pair ofsqueeze-rolls mounted above the box,means for driving said squeeze-rolls, a pair of rubbiog-rolls mounted on one side of the squeezerolis, cams for longitudinally reciprocating the said rubbing-rolls, means for revolving the rolls, guides in front of the rubbing-rolls so that the continuous fabric Will pass from the wash-box, between the rubbing-rolls and then between the sqneeze-ro1ls,and againinto the box, substantially as described.

The combination in a fabric-Washing machine, of a wash-box, a pair of squeezerolls mounted above the box, means fordriving the said squeeze-rolls, a pair of rubbingrolls mounted on one side of the squeeze-rolls, means for rotating said rubbing-rolls, means for reciprocating each roll, guides for the fabric, and a collecting-trough for the liquid mounted directly under the rubbing and squeeze rolls, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. C. KENYON.

Witnesses:

DANIEL R. SHERWOOD, CHAS. THURSTON. 

